Delegates attending the African Higher Education Summit held in Dakar, Senegal, agreed to promote harmonisation of the continent’s higher education systems through accreditation and mutual recognition of degrees, diplomas and certificates. (...) - University World News, by

Last summer, a new higher education law was finally passed. It was a true victory for the academic community, civil society and the revolution.

University World Newshas addressed the issues around the passing of the law many times. Work is currently focusing on the implementation of this law, which aims to give Ukrainian universities more academic, financial and organisational autonomy. But the reality is not straightforward (...) - University World News, by Serhiy Kvit, 20 March 2015 Issue No:359

An inept government and its even more inept education minister have left the nation’s vice-chancellors uncertain where their future funding will come from after the senate rejected a higher education reform bill for the second time. (...) - University World News, by Geoff Maslen, 18 March 2015 Issue No:359

The U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) plans to test an idea aimed at bringing stability to biomedical research labs: an award to support scientists who want to spend their careers doing research but don’t want to be the harried principal investigator (PI) who runs the lab and chases research grants. (...) - by Jocelyn Kaiser, Science, 16 March 2015

Last month's announcement that The New York Times Company would launch an education initiatives may have had a familiar ring to it. The company has spent close to a decade trying to turn the newspaper’s vast institutional knowledge into knowledge higher education institutions and students want to buy. (...) - @insidehighered, by Carl Straumsheim, March 4, 2015

Canada's three largest funding agencies on Friday released joint guidelinesto ensure open-access publication of the research they support. Called the Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications, the guidelines will require all peer-reviewed publicly funded research be made available for free online within 12 months of publication. The policy encompasses research funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and will go into effect May 1. (...) - @insidehighered, March 2, 2015

University students can have their fees increased or their degree course altered on a whim as a result of unfair contract terms imposed by British universities, according to a recent investigation, writes Kate Palmer for The Telegraph. (...) - University World News, The Telegraph, 27 February 2015, Issue No:356

Carlos Moedas on European funding models, diplomacy and scientific advice.

ast November, Portuguese engineer-turned-economist Carlos Moedas was plucked from managing his country’s budget-cutting austerity programme to take charge of the research portfolio at the European Commission in Brussels. (...) - Nature, by Alison Abbott & Philip Campbell, 23 March 2015

University staff must be free to criticize senior management and expose wrongdoing without fear of dismissal or disciplinary action, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. (...) - THE via @insidehighered, by Jack Grove, March 20, 2015

LONDON—The head of the Horizon 2020 research budget tried today to blunt criticism of a plan to take €2.7 billion from the European Commission’s research budget and put it into an investment fund for economic recovery.

During a visit here, Carlos Moedas assured the Royal Society’s Paul Nurse and other scientific leaders that the idea would spur research as well as innovation. (...) - Science, by Erik Stostad, 23/03/2015

As expected, agency will link abstracts to papers on journals’ websites.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) today released a long-anticipated policy that will require its grantees to make their peer-reviewed research papers freely available within 12 months of publication in a journal. The agency is not creating its own public archive of full-text papers, but instead will send those searching for papers to publishers’ own websites. (...) -Science, by Jocely Kaiser, 18 March 2015

Researchers float idea of National Research Bank, a $100 billion endowment.

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS—Researchers across the United States are well aware that times are tight. Despite a recent budget proposal from the Obama administration to increase spending on federal R&D by 7% next year, dollars flowing to research have largely been flat in recent years, and declining when inflation is taken into account. The long-term outlook is even worse. Growing federal commitments to Medicare, Medicaid, social security, and interest on the federal debt continue to chew up a greater proportion of the federal budget. The money for “discretionary” items that’s left over—including R&D—is expected to drop to 23% of the federal budget by 2040, down from 67% in 1970 and 36% in 2012. So it’s perhaps no surprise that basic researchers are beginning to look for new sources of support. (...) - Science, by Robert F. Service, 4 March 2015

On the 3rd of March 2015, university heads from around Europe will gather in Brussels to celebrate the 10th birthdayof the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers . A decade after the charter’s launch, it boasts over 600 signatories. EuroScientist examines if anything has really changed for scientists since its introduction; and whether the charter has fulfilled its mission. The verdict is somewhat disappointing. This is especially true at a time where scientists need protection from precarious research positions and need better structured career paths. (...) - EuroScientist Webzine, by Fiona Dunlevy, 03/03/2015

Energy secretary says he would block policy if party is in coalition after election, in sharp contrast to Lib Dem 2010 pledge to abolish fees altogether (...) - The Guardian, Patrick Wintour, 1 March 2015

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